Yield



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Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gieldan; akin to Old High German geltan to pay
• Date: before 12th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. archaic recompense, reward
  • 2. to give or render as fitting, rightfully owed, or required
  • 3. to give up possession of on claim or demand: as
    • a. to give up (as one's breath) and so die
    • b. to surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another ; hand over possession of
    • c. to surrender or submit (oneself) to another
    • d. to give (oneself) up to an inclination, temptation, or habit
    • e. to relinquish one's possession of (as a position of advantage or point of superiority) <yield precedence>
  • 4.
    • a. to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation <the tree always yields good fruit>
    • b. to produce or furnish as return <this soil should yield good crops>
    • c.
      • (1) to produce as return from an expenditure or investment ; furnish as profit or interest <a bond that yields 12 percent>
      • (2) to produce as revenue ; bring in <the tax is expected to yield millions>
  • 5. to give up (as a hit or run) in baseball <yielded two runs in the third inning>
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to be fruitful or productive ; bear, produce
  • 2. to give up and cease resistance or contention ; submit, succumb <facing an enemy who would not yield><yielding to temptation>
  • 3. to give way to pressure or influence ; submit to urging, persuasion, or entreaty
  • 4. to give way under physical force (as bending, stretching, or breaking)
  • 5.
    • a. to give place or precedence ; acknowledge the superiority of someone else
    • b. to be inferior <our dictionary yields to none>
    • c. to give way to or become succeeded by someone or something else
  • 6. to relinquish the floor of a legislative assembly
• Synonyms:
  • yield, submit, capitulate, succumb, relent, defer mean to give way to someone or something that one can no longer resist. yield may apply to any sort or degree of giving

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